Malaysia's ringgit hit a 17-year low on Monday as a global slump in commodity prices added to concerns over sluggish exports, while investors braced for a US Federal Reserve meeting that might take another step toward lifting interest rates. The ringgit eased 0.1% to 3.8110 per dollar, its weakest since September 1998.

LOS ANGELES - Bobbi Kristina Brown, the daughter of Whitney Houston and R&B singer Bobby Brown, died on Sunday -- five-and-a-half months after being found unconscious in a bathtub at her home in Roswell, Ga. She was 22.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - A planet believed to be remarkably similar to Earth has been discovered orbiting a distant sun-like star, bolstering hopes of finding life elsewhere in the universe, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.Named Kepler-452b, the planet is the smallest world discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of a star.

JOHOR BAHRU: Eleven students of Sekolah Kebangsaan Mount Austin here were injured after a school van they were travelling in was involved in an accident with another vehicle at a junction at Jalan Persiaran Jaya Putra Satu, Taman JP Perdana, here today.
Named Kepler-452b, the planet is the smallest world discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of a star.

KUALA LUMPUR: Sarawak Report yesterday vowed legal action against Barisan Nasional’s strategic communications director Abdul Rahman Dahlan, the New Straits Times and other publications which have deliberately promoted falsehoods designed to damage its credibility.

PUTRAJAYA: The magistrate’s court here granted an order to detain a director of two construction and property development companies under remand for four days to assist investigations into 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) today.